[Thad House]

We last attempted to use Vault in 2012. I completely agree with the remote vs local thing posted above. We had our server hosted at my house, and did the CAD at the school. The school network blocked Vault, so we had to use the teams 3G network for connecting to it. Speed wasn't too much of a problem, and it was fairly easy to setup and connect. The problem happened when somebody disconnected the 3G network while the CAD was uploading back to the server. This left the server in a broken state where nothing would work, because it still thought half the files were checked out, but the local computer thought they were all checked in. I didn't have a backup at the time because I couldn't figure out how to get it to work, and I couldn't figure out how to check everything in and revert, so we just left the vault and went local copies of the CAD. Maybe this summer we will try it again, but we would really want to test it and know its failure states so we wouldn't run into the same problem again.